Comments on: Yahoo Vote Recount Shows How Close Yang And Bostock Were To Being Ousted From The Board

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By: Obviously

Obviously — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:44:23 +0000

You can kick him out because he is destroying value for shareholders and because he is not serving the best interest of the shareholders. His salary is irrelevant and frankly, for a big company to pay a few million to a A+ CEO is a bargain vs. one that is being paid $1 and can’t get the job done.
Don’t forget either that Yang is still getting differed compensation in the form of stock/options.

By: YDRIVE

YDRIVE — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:45:45 +0000

Y¡ will continue to surprise the world… (what else?¡)

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ジェリー・ヤンとRoy Bostockは危うくYahooから追い出されるところだった

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ジェリー・ヤンとRoy Bostockは危うくYahooから追い出されるところだった — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:50:23 +0000

[...] ［原文へ］ [...]

By: jj

jj — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:34:00 +0000

@ImageCo : Amen.

@Yahoo: Fire the dude, anyway. Lordy. Your stock is going nowhere. M$oft buyout would have made stockholders money. You said no. Bad decision. Get fired.

By: ImageCo

ImageCo — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:23:13 +0000

The board really should authorize a salary increase for Jerry so he can afford a proper haircut.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:44:35 +0000

hey eric…

i’m not sure how you get that someone was close to being off the board, when they have 60% of the vote….

and to your point, regarding the issue as to what may have happened had icahn continued… who the hell knows! the shares that were not voted, may very well have voted to maintain yang, to make sure icahn didn’t have the ability to really fu*k up yahoo…

you’re kind of turning into a troll with some of your thoughts.. but then this is an opinion site now isn’t it…

you get what you pay for i guess…

peace!

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:42:28 +0000

What are some other companies with disgruntled shareholders that Broadridge has counted? Sounds like a standing recount might be in order.

Seems like they really messed up to the point that the SEC should look into prior counts and whether some shenanigans were played here on purpose. Such a remarkable unlikely event to have a huge shareholder demand a recount that perhaps there was an attempt by Broadridge to make their client (Bostock and Jerry write their checks!) look better, assuming that they would not get caught.

Wonder if there was any intent or if it is just incompetent. Either way, they should be held accountable…so, who (names, please) runs Broadridge and sits on its board…

By: Millionaire in One Year

Millionaire in One Year — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:16:07 +0000

Yahoo! when things like this happen it shows that the company wouldnt hold under pressure

By: Deal Journal - WSJ.com : Afternoon Reading: Deconstructing Time Warner

Deal Journal - WSJ.com : Afternoon Reading: Deconstructing Time Warner — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:15:15 +0000

[...] at TechCrunch, Erick Schonfeld points out that the Yahoo recount shows how close CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock were to being ousted [...]

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:59:56 +0000

spammer

By: Bebby

Bebby — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:59:55 +0000

Yahoo to purchase twitter? Rumors are flying.

Roy
http://www.read...ex.php?RTA=web2

By: EH

EH — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:51:35 +0000

There’s just no critical distance in these stories. The board agitation seems obvious in hindsight to be engineered to anticipate the annual meeting, and to some extent it worked similarly to how Presidential candidates drag their opponents down in the media to affect poll numbers. It didn’t work, and I think we can say that while some shareholders expressed some sympathy for the PR blitz that it wasn’t enough. Yang is safe for now and as we’ve seen in the past few weeks Yahoo is releasing great new features (like they’re supposed to).

By: Jon Kepler

Jon Kepler — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:44:46 +0000

No revenue.

By: Surprise Pudding

Surprise Pudding — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:29:40 +0000

I heard their upcoming logo-refreshener will put the exclamation mark upside down.

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:13:49 +0000

Recommend TechCrunch be renamed to “Schadenfreude” or “Roman Holiday”. Either one would better represent its evolution from a positive technology blog ( 2005 – 2007 ) to its current role as the “Statler and Waldorf” of software.

“…Schadenfreude is enjoyment taken from the misfortune of someone else. A more common English expression with a similar meaning is ‘Roman holiday’, a metaphor taken from the poem “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” by George Gordon, Lord Byron, where a gladiator in Ancient Rome expects to be “butcher’d to make a Roman holiday” while the audience would take pleasure from watching his suffering.

…The term suggests debauchery and disorder in addition to sadistic enjoyment.”

By: JGuy

JGuy — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:06:31 +0000

Yahoo BOSS has lots of potential. They need to hurry up and release more features for it through. Right now its more like a traditional search APi with unlimited usage rights.

By: jenkins

jenkins — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:59:22 +0000

Ah, good point but Twitter doesn’t have any revenue so their morale should be the same as it always has been.

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:45:05 +0000

twitter

By: Anti Matter

Anti Matter — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:44:26 +0000

Keep it coming.

By: techdude

techdude — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:36:47 +0000

Yahoo with all of its surprises… day after day.
http://blabtech.blogspot.com

By: jenkins

jenkins — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:33:13 +0000

is there an internet company (with actual revenue) that has lower morale than Yahoo right now? Can they do anything right? What a complete joke!

By: YDRIVE

YDRIVE — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:20:38 +0000

Y! will continue to surprise the world… (what else?!)

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:14:01 +0000

how can you kick a guy out whose salary is a dollar